27:39 So his father Isaac said to him,
“Indeed, 1 your home will be
away from the richness 2 of the earth,
and away from the dew of the sky above.
30:25 After Rachel had given birth 3 to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send 4 me on my way so that I can go 5 home to my own country. 6
31:55 (32:1) 7 Early in the morning Laban kissed 8 his grandchildren 9 and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home. 10
43:26 When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside, 11 and they bowed down to the ground before him.
1 tn Heb “look.”
2 tn Heb “from the fatness.”
3 tn The perfect verbal form is translated as a past perfect because Rachel’s giving birth to Joseph preceded Jacob’s conversation with Laban.
4 tn The imperatival form here expresses a request.
sn For Jacob to ask to leave would mean that seven more years had passed. Thus all Jacob’s children were born within the range of seven years of each other, with Joseph coming right at the end of the seven years.
5 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose or result.
6 tn Heb “to my place and to my land.”
7 sn Beginning with 31:55, the verse numbers in the English Bible through 32:32 differ by one from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 31:55 ET = 32:1 HT, 32:1 ET = 32:2 HT, etc., through 32:32 ET = 32:33 HT. From 33:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.
8 tn Heb “and Laban got up early in the morning and he kissed.”
9 tn Heb “his sons.”
10 tn Heb “to his place.”
11 tn Heb “into the house.”